THE MARYLAND-NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSION DEPARTMENT OF PARKS & RECREATION FOR PRINCE GEORGE S COUNTY NATURAL AND HISTORICAL RESOURCES DIVISION SURRATT HOUSE MUSEUM 9118 BRANDYWINE ROAD, CLINTON, MARYLAND 20735 301-868-1121 Gift and Souvenir Offerings for the Convenience of the Public POSTAGE POLICY: PLEASE ADD $4 FOR THE FIRST BOOK ORDERED AND $1 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL BOOK IN THE SAME ORDER, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. MARYLAND RESIDENTS MUST ADD 6% SALES TAX BEFORE ADDING POSTAGE. PURCHASES MAY BE MADE BY MAIL WITH CHECK OR MONEY ORDER MADE PAYABLE TO SURRATT HOUSE GIFT SHOP - SEE ADDRESS ABOVE. PLEASE INCLUDE DAYTIME TELEPHONE NUMBER IN CASE OF QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR ORDER. BE ADVISED THAT CHECKS RETURNED FOR INSUFFICIENT FUNDS WILL INCUR A $35 EXTRA FEE. PHONE ORDERS ARE RECEIVED AT 301-868-1121 WITH VISA, MASTERCARD, DISCOVER, OR AMERICAN EXPRESS. PRICES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, AND YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED IF THERE IS AN UNUSUAL DELAY DUE TO BACK ORDERS WITH A PUBLISHER. ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT THE MUSEUM PROGRAMS AT SURRATT HOUSE. ******************************** SPECIAL SALE BOOKS WHILE QUANTITIES LAST The Flags of Ford s Theatre by Richard Smyth and James Garrett - $5 Lincoln as Hero by Frank Williams - $5 Lincoln s Assassination by Edward Steers, Jr. - $5 Plotting to Kill the Presidents by Mel Ayton - $10 Bloody Crimes: The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Chase for Jefferson Davis by James L. Swanson - $10 April 65: Confederate Covert Actions in the American Civil War by William Tidwell - $10 Lincoln on Trial by Burrus Carnahan - $5 The Lincoln Assassination: Where Are They Now? by James Garrett and Richard Smyth - $10 Lincoln and the Power of the Press by Harold Holzer - $10 The Emancipation Proclamation by Harold Holzer, Edna Greene Medford, and Frank Williams - $5 The Last Lincoln Conspirator by Andrew Jampoler - $10 How a Nation Grieves edited by Glenn Alan Cheney - $5 Lincoln On Trial by Burrus Carnahan - $5 Lincoln s Surgeons by Wayne Temple - $10 Land of Lincoln by Andrew Ferguson - $5 The Judges of the Secret Court by David Stracton - $5 Stealing Lincoln s Body by Thomas Craughwell - $10 Lincoln s Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton by William Marvel - $10 A Nation Transformed by Gerald S. Henig and Eric Niderost - $10 A Threat to the Republic by Jerrod Madonna - $5 American Presidents Attend the Theater by Thomas Bogar - $5 The Hour of Peril by David Stashower - $10 Lincoln s Forgotten Ally: Joseph Holt by Elizabeth Leonard - $10 Congressman Lincoln by Chris DeRose - $10 Mourning Lincoln by Martha Hodes - $10
*************************************** A MUST HAVE Surratt House Museum: A Page in American History, a souvenir booklet on the history of the Surratts and the restoration of the site by Laurie Verge and Joan Chaconas -- $6 ANOTHER MUST HAVE Surratt House Museum Cookbook, a wonderful collection of recipes and historical material -- $16 PUBLICATIONS LINCOLN ASSASSINATION TOPICS Alias Paine: Lewis Thornton Powell, The Mystery Man of the Lincoln Conspiracy (2 nd edition) by Betty J Ownsbey - $34 (soft cover) American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies by Michael W. Kauffman - $15 (soft cover) The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Osborn H. Oldroyd - $24 (soft cover) The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: An Illustrated Account of America s First Murdered President by Caleb Jenner Stephens - $15 Assassin s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln by Kate Clifford Larson - $15 (soft cover) The Assassin s Doctor: The Life and Letters of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd by Robert K. Summers - $24 Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination by Thomas Bogar - $25 Beware the People Weeping by Thomas Turner - $18 Blood on the Moon by Edward Steers, Jr. - $21 (soft cover) The Body in the Barn: The Controversy over the Death of John Wilkes Booth, a Surratt Society publication - $10 Bright Star Falling by Diane Levero (historical novel) - $17 The Catholics and Mrs. Mary Surratt by Kenneth Zanca - $29 Come Retribution by William A. Tidwell, James O. Hall, and David Gaddy - $24 (soft cover) Confederate Freedom Fighter: The Story of John H. Surratt & The Plots against Lincoln by William L. Richter (historical novel) - $16 The Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the Great American Tragedy by Thomas Goodrich - $18 Decapitating the Union: Jefferson Davis, Judah Benjamin and the Plot to Assassinate Lincoln by John C. Fazio - $24.95 The Escape and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by Edward Steers, Jr. - $6 Ever the Gray Ghost: Col. John Singleton Mosby and the Lincoln Conspiracies by David Goetz - $35 Fortune s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth by Terry Alford - $29
From War Department Files, a Surratt Society publication of statements by the accused under examination - $20 Hanging Mary (historical novel) by Susan Higginbotham - $15.99 In Pursuit Of Continuing Research in the Field of the Lincoln Assassination, Vols. I, II, III published by the Surratt Society containing articles from its newsletter (1976-1999) - $25 each or set of three $65 John Surratt: The Lincoln Assassin Who Got Away by Michael Schein - $18.95 (soft cover) John Wilkes Booth Escape Route Illustrated Map by Kieran McAuliffe - $7.95 (plus $1 s/h) John Wilkes Booth: A Sister s Memoir by Asia Booth Clarke, edited by Terry Alford - $21 (soft cover) John Wilkes Booth Day By Day by Art Loux - $50 (plus $5 s/h) Last Confederate Heroes: The Final Struggle for Southern Independence (two volume set) by William L. Richter - $50 (plus $5 s/h) Life, Crime & Capture of John Wilkes Booth by George Alfred Townsend (reprint) - $7.50 (soft cover) Lincoln s Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion after the Civil War by Elizabeth Leonard - $14 (soft cover) Lincoln s Deathbed in Art & Memory The Rubber Room Phenomenon by Harold Holzer & Frank Williams - $9 Lincoln s Final Hours by Kathryn Canavan - $28 The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators: Their Confinement and Execution As Recorded in the Letterbook of John Frederick Hartranft edited by Edward Steers, Jr. & Harold Holzer - $24 The Lincoln Assassination: The Evidence, a 1488-page volume compiled by Bill Edwards and Edward Steers, Jr. from the first seven reels of M599 at the National Archives and Records Administration - $99 (plus $5 s/h) The Lincoln Assassination Riddle by Frank Williams and Michael Burkhimer - $25 The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies by William Hanchett - $19 (soft cover) Manhunt by James L. Swanson - $15 (soft cover) Mary Surratt: An American Tragedy by Elizabeth Steger Trindal - $25 NARA M699 Reward File digitized and copied to CD by Bill Edwards - $22 On the Way to Garrett s Barn John Wilkes Booth & David E. Herold in the Northern Neck of Virginia, April 22-26, 1865, by James O. Hall - $20 Protecting President Lincoln: The Security Effort, the Thwarted Plots and the Disaster at Ford s Theatre by Frederick Hatch - $37 (soft cover) Reminiscences and Souvenirs of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (reprint of 1894 edition) by J.E. Buckingham, Sr. - $20 Shooting Lincoln: Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner and the Race to Photograph the Story of the Century by Nicholas J.C. Pistor - $24
Sic Semper Tyrannis by William L Richter - $15 The Surratt Family and John Wilkes Booth by James O. Hall - $5 (plus $1 s/h) The Terrible Tragedy at Washington (a reprint of 1865 original) - $8.50 (soft cover) Thomas Jones: Chief Agent of the Confederate Secret Service in Maryland by John and Roberta Wearmouth - $20 To Make a Fortune: Following the Money Trail by James O. Hall and Michael Maione - $5 (plus $1 s/h) The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators, a special edition as arranged in 1865 by Benn Pitman, edited by Edward Steers, Jr. - $28 (soft cover) PUBLICATIONS GENERAL HISTORY Abraham Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography in Postcards with Price Guide by James D. Ristine - $22 Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame, two-volume boxed set - $55 (plus $5 s/h) Abstracts from the Port Tobacco Times and Charles County Advertiser Vol. I (1844-1854) edited by Roberta Wearmouth - $23 Vol. II (1855-1869) - $15 Vol. III (1870-1875) - $22 Act of Justice: Lincoln s Emancipation Proclamation and the Laws of War by Burrus Carnahan - $35 African American Faces of the Civil War by Ronald S. Coddington - $28 All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies by Elizabeth D. Leonard - $24 April 1865 by Jay Winik - $14 (soft cover) Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell - $13 (soft cover) The Battle of the Ironclads by John V. Quarstein - $17 Behind the Scenes in the Lincoln White House by Elizabeth Keckly - $7 Between Two Fires: Black Soldiers in the Civil War by Joyce Hanson - $5 Bluff, Bluster, Lies and Spies: The Lincoln Foreign Policy, 1861-1865 by David Perry - $29 Camp William Penn: 1863-1869, America s First Federal African American Soldiers Fight for Freedom by Donald Scott - $23 Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington by Cokie Roberts - $25 The Chesapeake Bay in the Civil War by Eric Mills - $24 Children for the Union by James Martin - $25 Civil War Dynasty: The Ewing Family of Ohio by Kenneth J. Heineman - $35
The Civil War in 50 Objects by Harold Holzer - $34 The Civil War Kids 150: Fifty Fun Things to Do, See, Make and Find for the 150 th Anniversary by the Civil War Trust - $12.95 Civil War Lawyers: Constitutional Questions, Courtroom Dramas, and the Men behind Them by Arthur Downey - $30 Civil War Women, They Made a Difference by Sylvia Vogel - $22 The Confederate Blockade of Washington DC 1861-1862 by Mary Alice Wills - $14.95 Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War by Albert Martin - $10 Confederate Dirty War by Jane Singer - $27 Confederate Heroines: 120 Southern Women Convicted by Union Military Justice by Thomas P. Lowry - $24.50 Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of our Nation s Leaders by Brady Carlson - $14 Duty Most Sublime: The Life of Robert E. Lee as Told Through the Carter Letters by William Franklin Cheney - $15 Exile to Sweet Dixie: The Story of Euphemia Goldsborough, Confederate Nurse & Smuggler by E.F. Conklin - $16 Fanny Seward: A Life by Trudy Krister - $28 Fashionable First Lady: The Victorian Wardrobe of Mary Lincoln by Donna McCreary - $23 Fighting for Uncle Sam: Buffalo Soldiers in the Frontier Army by John B. Langellier - $32 Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War by Ernest B. Furgurson - $15 Hoax: Hitler s Diary, Lincoln s Assassins, and Other Famous Frauds by Edward Steers, Jr. - $24 Kape s Everything Civil War (first edition, 1997) - $15 Last Words of the Civil War (statements by Civil War people) by Gary Radison - $15 Lincoln Slept Here: The Early Ancestry by Edward Steers, Jr. - $15.95 Lincoln Slept Here: The Indiana Years by Edward Steers, Jr. - $14 The Life of Abraham Lincoln as President by Ward Hill Lamon (Lincoln s personal bodyguard) as edited by Bob O Connor - $20 (soft cover) Lincoln Day-by-Day A Chronology, 1809-1865 by Earl Schenck Miers & C. Percy Powell - $35 Lincoln in 3D: Amazing and Rare Stereoscopic Photographs of His Life and Times by Bob Zeller & John L. Richter - $30 (includes 3D glasses) Lincoln s Men: The President and His Private Secretaries by Daniel Mark Epstein - $13 (soft cover)
Lincoln s Other White House: The Untold Story of the Man and His Presidency by Elizabeth Smith Brownstein - $23 Love and Power in the Nineteenth Century: The Marriage of Violet Blair by Virginia Jeans Laas - $28 Maryland Voices of the Civil War edited by Charles W. Mitchell - $30 Miss Lizzie s War: The Double Life of Southern Belle Spy Elizabeth Van Lew by Rosemary Agonito - $16 (soft cover) My Policy Is To Have No Policy (an essay on Lincoln s plans for Recostruction) by William L. Richter - $8 Pauline Cushman: Spy of the Cumberland by William J. Christen - $32 The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, A Self-Made Man by Sidney Blumenthal - $33 The Presidents War by Chris DeRose - $27 The Siege of Washington: The Untold Story of the Twelve Days that Shook the Nation by John Lockwood and Charles Lockwood - $25 A Separate Battle: Women in the Civil War by Ina Chang - $15 The Smithsonian Civil War, Inside the National Collection by Jon Meacham - $35 Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History by John Egerton - $23 Spy Sites by Robert Wallace and Keith Melton - $21 Stanton, Lincoln s War Secretary by Walter Stahr - $32.50 The Taste is in My Mouth a Little by Wayne C. Temple - $19 Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin - $20 Three Cheers for the Chesapeake: History of the 4 th Maryland Light Artillery Battery in the Civil War by Rick Richter - $30 The True Mary Todd Lincoln, A Biography by Betty Bales Ellison - $35 The U.S.S. Constellation: An Illustrated History by Stephen R. Bockmiller and Lawrence Bapp - $17 A Valentine Treasury: A Century of Valentine Cards by Robert Brenner - $40 The War the Women Lived: Female Voices from the Confederate South edited by Walter Sullivan - $22 The Washington Arsenal Explosion by Brian Bergin - $19 We Were Marching on Christmas Day by Kevin Rawlings - $24.95 Wild Rose by Ann Blackman - $24 Women of the Civil War: Soldiers. Spies and Nurses by Darlene Funkhouser - $9
CHILDREN S BOOKS Abe Lincoln Remembers by Ann Turner - $15 Abraham Lincoln Goes to Washington by Cheryl Harness - $7.95 Bloody Times by James L. Swanson - $16 Chasing Lincoln s Killer by James L. Swanson - $16 The Civil War Begins by Jane H. Gould - $9 Dear America, A Light in the Storm, The Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware 1861 (children) - $12 Dear America, When Will This Cruel War Be Over? The Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia 1864 - $16 Dear America, A Picture of Freedom, The Diary of Clotee, A Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859 - $13 Lincoln by Henry Freeman - $12.99 Lincoln Coloring Book by A.G. Smith - $3.99 A Nation Divided: Causes of the Civil War by Jeff Putnam - $8.95 Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (numerous authors) - $15 Abraham Lincoln: Pioneer to President by E.B. Phillips - $5.50 Reconstruction and the Aftermath of the Civil War by Lisa Colozza Cocca - $8.95 WASHINGTON, DC & AREA-RELATED TOPICS We have numerous titles related to specific neighborhoods, baseball, firefighters, cemeteries, colleges, local black history, postcard histories and more. Please contact the museum if you wish information. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * WE ALSO CARRY A SMALL VARIETY OF GIFTS, SOUVENIR ITEMS AND VIDEOS PLEASE CONTACT THE MUSEUM FOR FURTHER INFORMATION * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * An Act of the United States Post Office Department on Friday, October 6, 1854, created the post office of Surratts, Prince George s Co., Md. John Harrison Surratt, Postmaster. FROM POST OFFICE REGULATIONS OF 1855 Sec. 29 A postmaster will always be in readiness in person, or by his assistants, to receive the mail when it arrives, and dispatch it with all possible expedition. Sec. 30 If no special order upon the subject has been made in regard to his office, he is allowed seven minutes only to change the mail. As a 21 st -century, volunteer organization, our operation is no longer under the purview of 1855 Post Office regulations. Unlike the postmaster of 1855, who was allowed seven minutes only to change the mail, we are required under FTC rules to fill mail orders within six weeks. We do, however, respond to inquiries and orders with all possible expedition, usually mailing out items within 2-3 days of receipt of your order. In the event you order is delayed, please bear with us.